HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

WE LOVE YOU!!!~~ TRISTON & TRENTON

Tri-County

Triston's second wrestling tournament was on Sunday in Petersburg. There weren't near as many people at this tournament and Triston did improve. However, I was a little irritated because he could have won the first match. He went all three rounds and earned 10 points but lost by 9 points. The kid was just his size and didn't seem as experienced as his other competitors of last week. But Triston just looks around and doesn't pay much attention to what he is doing. I was really having to remind myself that he is only 4 and this is his first year. The second match went all three rounds as well and he lost by points again. He had this kid on his back several times, but just never pinned him. Maybe we will get this weekend in Moorefield. Of course, he will be wrestling the same kids again, probably.
Triston sure does put on a great game face. If you could only see the determination!

He was just happy to get his participation medal! We have a match this weekend on Saturday and then a home meet the following Saturday at Hampshire High on the 21st. Hope some of you can make it.

Dance Party

The kids were invited to a birthday party on Saturday night at the Expressions dance studio in Romney. It was a lot of fun and the boys had a really good time. They played various games with the omnikin ball, relays with foward rolls, the mini trampoline and then the finished up with some dancing and pinata. It was a lot of fun. Trenton was almost too little because he was having a hard time following directions but what else is new!!!
The played a game that we do with our kids sometimes with the big ball, and they run in a circle trying not to let the ball hit them. Triston took his turn and ran really fast, Trenton took his turn and ran right into the ball.

This is Trenton not following directions!

My boys, practing their wrestling moves. While everyone else is tumbling.

Hula hoop tag game, not a huge success with the boys.

The boys showed off their foward rolls and log rolls.

The parachute was a lot of fun. They both really liked this activity.

How low can you go!!

Groundhog Day

Man, was the groundhog right!! I had one of the wildest drives home today. It started out leaving James Wood Middle with the clouds getting dark. As I drove up the road it started to rain in Hayfield and then by the time I started up the mountain in Gore a little snow mixed in with the rain. By the time I hit Capon Bridge, it was just snow. Then the closer I got to the house the worse it got. By the time I got onto Heide Cooper, my road, I barley made it up the hill. The road was completely covered with snow, almost an inch. It was just really freaky to only travel 38 miles and hit that much different weather.
Anyway, Triston made a ground hog today at school in honor of Groundhogs Day and he was pretty proud. He has been doing so great the past couple of weeks. Yesterday him and I went to the movies to see Hotel for Dogs, it was really cute and he finally sat through his first movie. He has been four times but this was the first one in its entirety. If the month of February is good for him then we are going to go roller skating.

6 more weeks of winter started right away! These pictures were taken about 8:00pm.

Our Star!

Triston's picture was in the paper posing with his medal. What a surprise, because we had no idea that it was going to be in there. There was a caption that read:
Hampshire Mat Club's youngest wrestler, Triston Timbrook shows off the medal he won at his first ever wrestling tournament in Keyser. Triston is the son of Josh and Debra Timbrook. He was so proud. They mispelled his name and he didn't actually "win" the medal but that's ok!

http://www.hampshirereview.com/z/GallerySP1.asp

SNOW DAY!!!

From the time he got up until I finally gave in, Triston begged to please go outside and play in the snow. It wouldn't stop snowing and I refused to take them outside while it was still snowing. Finally, the snow stopped and don't think that Triston didn't notice. "Mom, it's not snowing, please can we go outside." I couldn't resist. So we went upstairs and put on two pair of sweats, two shirts, two pair of socks, coveralls and boots..... half and hour later we are ready to go outside. And wouldn't you know it, it was snowing again. Well, we were going outside regardless at this point. I am sweating, both boys wouldn't keep their gloves on and we couldn't find Triston's boots. Finally, we are ready. I grab my camera and head outside. The snow coming down has a slight mist in it and was extremely cold. The boys seemed to enjoy themselves, Triston made a snow angel and Trenton tried to go down to the swing set, but realized that he couldn't hardly move in all the clothes he had on and it was really difficult for him to make it back up the hill. Well, it took about thirty minutes to get ready to go outside and we were out there for about ten minutes, and that is pushing it. Oh well, I am sure we won't have school tomorrow either so maybe we can get back out for eleven minutes!!!!

Next time maybe Trenton will listen to his wise mommy and leave his gloves on while playing in the snow. I guess first of many hard lessons learned for our little guy!! Mom does now best!!!

January's Project

Each month Triston's class has a family project and this month it was to make a box for their Valentine's party. We have had a lot of fun on these projects. Mom helped Triston withe the scarecrow and then we finished it at home. Then mom helped Triston with his Christmas tree while the girls and I baked cookies. This time Triston, Trenton and myself all pitched in and helped decorate. The boys each painted a heart I cut out of white paper to put on the sides. The paint made a huge mess, but I just kept telling myself it is washable. Then I wrapped the box in red wrapping paper and we put the two hearts on the ends of the box. I placed black mailbox letters on the front for his name and added some stickers and die cuts from my scrapbooking stuff. There were a couple of moments that I needed a reality check during this project. Sometimes I get so caught up in the why "I" think that things should be and don't realize that I could learn a lot from the boys. Triston wanted to put the negative space that was left over from the stickers on the top of the box and I was like absolutely not! He did it anyway and I acted like it was the end of the world. I don't know why I have such a hard time sometimes. I told Triston that the box was ruined! (What a great mom!) Then he looked at me and said, "It is MY box, mom!" Already with the attitude! But he was right and it put me back in my place where I needed to be. Thanks Triston! But all in all we had a lot of fun decorating the box and it was great that Triston let Trenton put his heart on the box, too.